244. 8 Nutrition Mistakes Sabotaging Your Performance
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After years of bodybuilding, coaching, and pushing my body to extremes, you start to see patterns you can't unsee. People chase fat loss harder and harder, slash calories, live on stimulants, and follow rigid nutrition rules that promise control and discipline. It works for a while. Then energy drops. Recovery slows. Hormones take a hit. Inflammation creeps up. And the cycle starts all over again.
In this episode, I break down eight nutrition mistakes I see repeatedly sabotaging health and long-term progress. We talk about extreme calorie deficits, processed protein overload, missing micronutrients, cutting fats, binge eating disguised as cheat days, bro science diets, stimulant dependence, and removing food groups without understanding individual biology. I explain how these habits impact thyroid function, hormones, gut health, brain chemistry, sleep, and biological aging.
If your goal is strength, resilience, and a body that still performs decades from now, this episode will challenge how you think about nutrition, discipline, and sustainability.
What's Discussed:
(00:37) Why extreme calorie deficits damage metabolism and hormones
(03:56) The binge-restrict cycle and why the body starts expecting it
(07:13) How processed protein foods quietly drive inflammation
(09:02) Why ignoring micronutrients undermines gut and recovery health
(10:09) The risks of cutting entire food groups without understanding biology
(12:07) What I learned after testing vegan, keto, and restrictive diets
(15:28) Cheat days vs refeeds and how binge eating rewires the brain
(21:09) How stimulant dependence disrupts sleep and accelerates aging
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Unmatched Supplements
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Unmatched Outlier (pre-workout)
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Biostack Labs Glucose Disposal Agent (GDA)
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Carbon 60 Olive Oil (ESS60 / My Vital C)
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Paraxanthine
Continuous Glucose Monitor
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Virgin Olive Oil (general, high-quality source)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Chris Getten podcast where we dive deep into the science of building a stronger physique, |
| 0:11.9 | unlocking the secrets of anti-aging and optimizing your health through cutting edge biohacks, |
| 0:17.6 | fitness strategies and mental resilience. I've been a personal trainer for nearly 30 years now and voted the number one transformation |
| 0:25.2 | trainer by governing bodies such as PT Academy, bodybuilding.com and trainerize. |
| 0:31.9 | I am the co-founder of unmatched supplements, co-founder of the Chris Kathleenethyn Jims franchise, and co-founder of my |
| 0:39.6 | online coaching platform, Chris Kethin Coaching, and author of several books. I'm a hybrid athlete, |
| 0:46.2 | a natural pro bodybuilder, and I've competed in events such as Iron Man Triathlon, Ultramarathon, |
| 0:52.0 | Spartan, and many more. My goal with this podcast is to cut through |
| 0:56.7 | the noise of fitness myth, misconceptions, and deliver clear protocols, actual tips, and real |
| 1:04.1 | resilience and science to help you optimize your physique, elevate your physical and mental |
| 1:10.4 | health span, and, of course, |
| 1:12.8 | enhance your life. |
| 1:15.8 | Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Chris Getham podcast. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm going to be talking about nutrition mistakes and what to do instead. |
| 1:26.0 | I've made some notes here to refer to, and over the years, |
| 1:29.7 | I've seen countless of bodybuilders take an approach to building a leaner, more muscular, |
| 1:35.9 | stronger physique, but that's downright harmful. It's not good the way they, I was a culprit. |
| 1:41.7 | I was that person once. So let's get into it. So from my experience, |
| 1:46.8 | the industry can push some unhealthy habit that might give you results in the short term, |
| 1:52.2 | but wreak havoc with your health span in the long term. So in this episode, we're going to break it |
| 1:57.9 | down. The biggest nutrition mistakes that I see being made, |
| 2:02.1 | why they're so damaging, and most importantly, what you can do to fuel your physique, to keep |
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